Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody’s under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.
THOMAS MOREWhoever loveth me, loveth my hound.
More Thomas More Quotes
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He travels best that knows when to return.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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Because the soul has such deep roots in personal and social life and its values run so contrary to modern concerns, caring for the soul may well turn out to be a radical act, a challenge to accepted norms.
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Sex and religion are closer to each other than either might prefer.
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What is deferred is not avoided.
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Nobody sees a flower really, it is so small. We haven’t time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.
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A drowning man will clutch at a straw.
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And it will fall out as in a complication of diseases, that by applying a remedy to one sore, you will provoke another; and that which removes the one ill symptom produces others.
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It is possible to live for the next life and still be merry in this.
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Oh! blame not the bard.
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Yea, marry, now it is somewhat, for now it is rhyme; before, it was neither rhyme nor reason.
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Getting married is like putting one’s hand in a bag containing 99 serpents and one eel.
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By reason of gifts and bribes the offices be given to rich men, which should rather have been executed by wise men.
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See me safe up: for in my coming down, I can shift for myself.
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Pride thinks it’s own happiness shines the brighter by comparing it with the misfortunes of others.
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